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KENYA: CPJ concerned over police intimidation of Star reporters

By KOJANEWS.NET The Committee to Protect Journalist is concerned Kenyan police are attempting to intimidate journalists at the private daily, The Star, to reveal their sources for a June 20 article that said the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Unit had lost crucial files about an accused al-Qaeda member. In July, officers of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit interrogated Investigations Editor Andrew Teyie and reporter Maina Kamore for four hours about the sources for their story, according to defense lawyer Paul Muite. The police also summoned the newspaper’s editor, Catherine Gicheru, and political editor, Paul Ilado, for questioning. After refusing to reveal their sources, Teyie and Kamore received a summons to appear August 12 in the magistrate’s court in the coastal city of Mombasa to explain how they obtained information for the article, according to the court summons. Muite wrote a letter to Attorney General Amos Wako saying the summons breached Kenyan law; an individual cannot be sum

Moving home made easier and Stress –Free online.

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US Government Challenges Africa on Climate Change

By Kojanet.com US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging African governments to begin devising adaptation measures in order to cushion their people against the vagaries of weather. Clinton in her keynote address stressed the need for African governments to now more than ever, find solutions to nature's challenges including climate change and provide food to her people. However the climate changes community and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is also urging for significant reduction greenhouse gases emissions to reduce the effects of climate change. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga is also urging the industrialized nations to help Africa to mitigate the effects of climate change. A combination of both the industrialized and developing countries have continued to pump record levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Already Kenya is reeling under four years of failed rains while the downside will see a flooding period during the short rains when meteorolo